⏱️How it unfolded
The score against the pace we expected, quarter by quarter.
The score, against the pace we expected
The Warriors stayed within a few baskets of the pace we expected all game.
Where it moved
▲ HOU better than we expected
▼ GS better than we expected
The fourth quarter was where it moved most, 8 points worse than our numbers for the Rockets.
⚖️What decided it
Why the Warriors won, and why the Rockets did not.
From the game
Made seventeen threes to their ten
Key battles
🏀Good plays, bad plays
The plays that went each side's way, and the ones each side did to itself.
Rockets
Good plays
- 8-0 run
A 8-0 run took them from 6 down to 2 up
Q2 7:45 · HOU 35-33 GS
Bad plays
- Technical
Tari Eason technical foul (1st technical foul)
Q4 4:35 · HOU 95-108 GS
Warriors
Good plays
- 10-0 run
A 10-0 run took them from 3 down to 7 up
Q1 5:25 · HOU 14-21 GS
- 8-0 run
A 8-0 run stretched a 1-point lead to 9
Q2 4:33 · HOU 40-49 GS
- 8-0 run
A 8-0 run stretched a 3-point lead to 11
Q4 10:08 · HOU 87-98 GS
Bad plays
Nothing costly of their own making.
📊The numbers
| HOU | GS | |
|---|---|---|
| 42% | Shooting from the field | 50% |
| 10 | Threes made | 17 |
| 28% | Three-point accuracy | 35% |
| 20 | Free throws made | 16 |
| 41 | Rebounds | 48 |
| 13 | Offensive rebounds | 16 |
| 14 | Assists | 31 |
| 54 | Points in the paint | 50 |
| 25 | Fast break points | 28 |
| 26 | Points off turnovers | 25 |
| 18 | Turnovers | 20 |
| 14 | Steals | 12 |
| 2 | Blocks | 6 |
